On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 06:25:33PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> * Olaf Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010902 17:30]:
> > Do you have any biff-like software running?
>
> The only thing possibly similar is gnome's 'Mail check Applet". I have
> no problem turning it off for testing purposes. There... done.
and received new mail after that?
Hi hall,
I played a little bit around with the different dates.
heres's a small (bash) shell function which will display all three dates/times
of a file: mtime, ctime, atime
--snip
ftimes ()
{
echo -n "ct: ";
ls --color=auto -lc --full-time "$@";
echo -n "mod: ";
ls --color=auto -l --full-time "$@";
echo -n "acc: ";
ls --color=auto -lu --full-time "$@"
}
--snap
to use it, type it or source it with "."
I observed 3 different relations between these three times in my
/var/spool/mail/olaf
("bigger" times are meant to be later)
no new mail, modified by user (with mutt): ctime > atime > mtime
new mail, unread "N" : ctime >= mtime > atime
old unread mail(mails with "O" in folder): ctime = atime > mtime
write a new mail to yourself (without mutt,
use simply the mail command, watch the state of your mailbox,
say every 20 seconds beforee and after doing this, up to 5 minutes.
have a look at your process list,
(even that of other users: ps xau)
to exclude any other access than mutt.
so if a folder in my setup has new mail, with the shell function above
all times must be shown in descending order - then should the folder
be displayed as "New" by mutt.
I don't use a folder_format variable in my .muttrc so mutt uses its default:
"%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f"
(according to manual), it works as well when I include the above
into my .muttrc.
BTW either your time zone setting is incorect (-0500 instead of -0400)
or your system clock is an hour ahead.
> Regards
Olaf
